Jaromir Jakubik

Jaromir Jakubik (1774-1842) was a colonel of the Grande Armee of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Jaromir Jakubik was born in Lodz, Poland-Lithuania in 1774, and he moved to the French First Republic after the partitioning of Poland by the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, and the Russian Empire in 1792. Jakubik joined the Polish Legions under Jan Henryk Dabrowski and served in the Italian Campaign and many other battles. Jakubik would become the colonel of a Polish regiment in the Grande Armee before the 1812 invasion of Russia by Napoleon I, and he led his regiment at the Battle of Borodino. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Jakubik settled in Paris, where he died in 1842.